FRUCTIFICATION. 
Tas. XII. 
The column and sexual apparatus of SaTyRIUM PUSTULATUM; 
from a drawing by Mr. Bauer in 1800. This plate shews 
the state of all the parts of fructification before impreg- 
nation and about 10 or 12 days before the expansion of 
the flower; and illustrates the Tribe called OpHRYDEX. 
Back view of the young bud; natural size. 
Front view of the same; magnified 4 diameters. 
Back view of the same; magnified 4 diameters. 
. Side view of the same; magnified 4 diameters. 
op WN 
. Longitudinal section of the lip of the same bud, the sepals and lateral 
petals being removed; magnified 4 diameters. | 
6. Front view of the column and ovarium; magnified 8 diameters. 
7. A portion of the same column with the stigma in an unimpregnated 
state, and the anther; magnified 16 diameters. 
8. The same, with the stigma cut off and turned aside so as to shew the 
clinandrium or back of the stigma, with its glands, and the position 
of the caudicule at that stage, when they are still enclosed in the 
sheaths of the anther; magnified 16 diameters. 
9. A side view of the same parts in their natural position. 
10. Front view of a vertical section of the same through the middle of 
the cells of the anther and the stigma, in the direction of e /f, in 
fig. 9; magnified 16 diameters. 
11. A view of a vertical section of the same through the middle of the 
connectivum, in the direction of a 4, in fig. 7; magnified 16 dia- 
meters. 3 
12. A vertical section through one cell of the anther and its caudicular 
sheath, in the direction of ¢ d of fig. 8; magnified 16 diameters. 
13. A transverse section of a caudicular sheath, and of the two tubular 
caudiculz enclosed in it; magnified 32 diameters. 
